As an F4L Triathlon Coaching athlete, you can expect your coach to deliver a training program and training structure that is designed to suit you as an individual and your goals.
Your coach will provide you with your individual training program and oversee your long term training development. You can expect your coach to:
- Prepare your individual session content tailored to your needs
- Modify your sessions when required
- Assist you to prepare race strategies
- Provide suggested race nutrition strategies
- Provide advice on proposed race schedules for the season
- Respond to your emails promptly within 48 hours
- Discuss your results following races when required
- Provide basic advice on equipment and products
- Refer you to recommended health professionals when required
Coaching Attention Levels
Your level of attention from your coach will vary throughout the season depending on your phase of training and your circumstances. Expect changes in the attention level from your coach:
- When you have a major goal race coming up and your coach is helping you specifically prepare and peak for that event.
- When you have an injury or illness that requires your coach to follow up and modify your training programs until you get back into full training.
- When you are in a training phase where the training goals are simple, your injury risk is low and you are working on long term improvements with no major races coming up. In this phase, expect your coach to be monitoring you at sessions with minimal phone or email contact unless required
Emails
Emails are the easiest, quickest and most convenient way to communicate with your coach. Email allows us to respond quickly to our athletes while still maintaining the quality of our training sessions and online programs.
Training Program Modifications
In general, your training programs will be written 2-4 weeks in advance and we do not expect to make modifications to your training programs very often. In general, most athletes never need modifications to their training program if they communicate their training availability in advance to us (holidays, work commitments etc).
We expect modifications only when there is an injury or illness or if you have a major race coming up and changes need to be made to ensure you reach peak condition.
What We Expect From You
Our coaches put a lot of time and effort into ensuring that you are in the best condition for your goal races as well as developing you as an athlete to reach your long term potential.
In order for our coaches to provide you with the best support and appropriate feedback as an athlete, we expect our athletes to:
- Complete their sessions as prescribed to achieve the goals of the session
- Upload their training data to Training Peaks regularly
- Upload their training comments to Training Peaks regularly
- Not change their training programs without discussing it with their coach
In Addition, It Is Expected That F4L Triathlon Coaching Athletes Also Do The Following:
- Promote F4L Triathlon Coaching to like-minded athletes
- Write the occasional article for the F4L Triathlon Coaching website about their season or training or their main race etc
- F4L Triathlon Coaches also ask that any F4L Triathlon Coaching athlete sets a good example by observing the road rules, especially stopping at stop signs/lights and act as an ambassador.
Communication
Most importantly, we expect all our athletes to actively communicate with their coach to form a two-way relationship. The best results are gained when both the coach and athlete work together with the athlete providing regular feedback.
We expect that most athlete communication is before or after regular squad sessions, however, we also expect that athletes will email their coach 1-2 times a fortnight with any feedback, updates or questions that they have.
